And that’s when the nurse, Jess Hamm, 30, saw Delilah on a gurney with broken bones, a skull fracture and severe malnourishment. At 14 months old, Hamm told the station, Delilah couldn’t sit up or hold a bottle because she was too weak.

“She had a skull fracture with a brain bleed from her head trauma,” Hamm told InsideEdition.com. “She had a broken femur, multiple fractures in all of her extremities. She was very malnourished. She was 14 months and about 11 pounds, so she was just skin and bones.”

Hamm told WFOX that her “heart was broken. I don’t want to cry. She was just so lifeless, but she still held onto my finger,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to take her home.’”

And so she contacted the Florida Department of Children and Families to adopt – and at the same time learned that Delilah had a sister, Caroline, who also was in the hospital. She decided to turn a two-person family into a trio.

The twins, now 2-year-olds, have very different personalities, she told WFOX. Caroline is a social butterfly who enjoys helping others while Delilah loves turning on the charm and sharing kisses with everybody.

“They’ve been through so much and they’re completely different kids,” Hamm told TV station WFLA. “If you had met them when I met them you would be amazed.